Barnby Dun
Village · 3,408 residents
60Good
Good · better than 4 in 10 villages
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
Each arc is a topic, coloured by its score
What’s good
- Affordability scores 83, well above the typical 60
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 49 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- 95% of homes can get full-fibre broadband
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- Flood risk: 30% of the area is in the highest flood zone, so check the street
- Food & drink scores 21, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Barnby Dun
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Barnby Dun a good place to live?
Barnby Dun scores 60/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for affordability (83) and safety (71).
It scores lowest on food & drink (21).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Barnby Dun in Yorkshire and The Humber, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Barnby Dun
Semi-detached houses on wide plots, a scattering of detached homes, and hardly a flat in sight — this is the streetscape of Barnby Dun, a village on the edge of Doncaster where the average resident is well into their fifties and the traffic through the middle of it feels more like a through-road than a destination. It reads as settled rather than transient, the sort of place people move to and stay, not pass through.
The numbers back up that settled feel: this sits among the least deprived places in the country on both income and general deprivation measures, which is a slightly clinical way of saying that money worries are less visible here than in most of England. Housing reflects it — a median house price around £240,000 is below the national figure but noticeably above what you'd find across the wider Doncaster area, roughly 30% higher than the metropolitan district it sits within. Almost all sales are freehold houses, mostly semis and detached, so a For Sale board here is overwhelmingly likely to mean a family house with a garden rather than a flat conversion. Barnby Dun Primary Academy, rated Good, is the one school in the immediate area, and with Kirk Sandall Rail Station serving the village, a commuter household with school-age children could plausibly build a whole routine — station, school, home — without leaving the area at all.
Green space is modest in scale but present, spread across eight pockets rather than one big park, which suits dog walkers and short evening loops more than all-day outings. Day-to-day life here leans domestic rather than social — this isn't an area with much of a restaurant or nightlife scene, and the grading reflects that: strong marks for transport, connectivity and affordability sit alongside a distinctly average one for nightlife, the outlier in an otherwise consistent set of scores. Full-fibre broadband coverage is unusually high, which matters more than it once did given how many people now work from home some of the week. On safety, the picture is reasonable rather than exceptional — anti-social behaviour is the most commonly logged issue, and violent and sexual offences make up the largest single share of recorded crime, though the overall rate is well down on the Doncaster average as a whole.